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According to the common core education standards that's the best way to do it. forget about the civil war. told remain from giving background context or substantial instructor gid dance. the close reading forces students to rely exclusively on the text and level playing field for those seeking to comprehend lincoln's address. with us is jim surgess. >> jim, when you first heard of these standards, this particular piece of information as it relates to gettysburg address, what was your response? >> there is a nationwide controversy around common core what it means for kids in the classroom and m...

"60 minutes" to exist when this is the background context. >> well, this is precisely the point that bill keller and again greenwald were bouncing back and forth when they did their dialogue in the "times." >> bill keller, formally with "the new york times." >> but obviously, this statement of lara's, and this is going to become more and pore apparent, raises the stakes even more for the importance of cbs to be transparent about just how the vetting process was done. i mean, this is ultimately a failure of good journalism. it's an abrogation of the verification process. it was not followed. >>...

Neutrality that is necessary for "60 minutes" to exist when this is the background context. >> well, this is precisely the point that bill keller and again greenwald were bouncing back and forth when they did their dialogue in the "times." >> bill keller, formally with "the new york times." >> but obviously, this statement of lara's, and this is going to become more and pore apparent, raises the stakes even more for the importance of cbs to be transparent about just how the vetting process was done. i mean, this is ultimately a failure of good journalism. it's an abrogation of the verification...

We think of hiroshima, those pictures horrible after the event that happened. >> no radiation is safe. but generally speaking, americans don't have anything to worry about. >> we have on this map here and we're showing obviously the path some 5,000 miles first to the aleutian islands. >> you can't reassure people. people are so terrified that everything you say, because they don't have that background context, that understanding of what radiation is and what it means, they can't actually decide for themselves what's safe and what risk they want to bear. and i think that's one of the real probl...

Wall street should actually care about the fact unemployment is high. i want to talk a little bit more about unemployment and talk about the big background context in texas and the immigration there and what that means for the obama coalition and what happened on the hill today which is actually quite fascinating after this break. i was spotting, but i had already gone through menopause. these symptoms may be nothing... but they could be early warning signs of a gynecologic cancer, such as cervical, ovarian, or uterine cancer. feeling bloated for no reason. that's what i remember. seeing my do...